Kate Winslet has lifted the lid on what it was really like kissing Leonardo DiCaprio in the iconic Titanic sunset scene revealing why the steamy moment was in fact a disaster.
The door which saved Rose in James Cameron’s Titanic has been sold.
The prop has been auctioned off for over $700,000.
Auction notes mentioned the ongoing debate surrounding the size of the wooden panel, saying many fans have argued it could have supported both Jack and Rose.
The film’s director says he did a thorough forensic analysis to prove Jack would not have been able to fit on the door to save himself.
The door was the highest-selling prop in the three-day-long auction.
Winslet, 48, and DiCaprio, 49, swept romantic-film lovers off their feet as starry-eyed Rose and Jack in the 1997 film, where the now award-winning icons were just 22 and 21.
The James Cameron film of December that year still has the world drawn 27 years later to the famous “Jack, I’m flying” kissing scene on the boat.
Kate Winslet has admitted her infamous on-screen kiss with actor Leonardo DiCaprio atop the bow of the boat in a steamy Titanic scene was anything but romantic. Picture: Picselect.
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But, speaking on Wednesday in an interview with Vanity Fair, Winslet candidly revealed filming the sunset scene with her heart-throb co-star was “such as mess”.
“Every girl in the world wanted to be kissed by Leonardo DiCaprio, it was not all it’s cracked up to be,” she said.
The British born star said she had makeup products concealed beneath her corset dress in the scene because the production’s makeup artists couldn’t “reach” the section of the ship set for touch ups.
“So, we kept doing this kiss and I have a lot of pale makeup on, and I would have to like do our makeup checks, me, on both of us between takes,” she said.
Winslet and DiCaprio became best friends on set. Picture: Picselect
“And I would end up looking as though I had been like sucking a caramel chocolate bar after each take because his makeup would come off on me.
“And he just looked like there was a bit missing from his face, because there was this big pale bit from all my makeup getting onto him.”
She said it was “quite funny” as the iconic duo were “giggling” while “covered in each other’s makeup”.
Winslet revealed DiCaprio was quite the clown.
“Oh, this was a nightmare, shooting this, because Leo couldn’t stop laughing and we had to re shoot this about four times,” she said.
“He’s quite the romancer, isn’t he?”
British actress Kate Winslet delivered a surprise performance at a family camping festival in England.
The ‘Titanic’ star presented a reading of one of her favourite children’s books, clad in her pyjamas.
This unexpected appearance took place in the Bedtime Story Tent at Camp Bestival, catered to the UK’s preschool TV channel, ‘CBeebies’.
The typical headstrong and complicated movie protagonist said she feels “very proud” of the famous film, where saw production costs balloon out to $200 million or about $1 million per minute of screen time.
“I feel that it is that film that just keeps giving,” she said.
“Whole other generations of people are discovering the film or seeing it for the first time and there’s something extraordinary about that.”
Winslet and DiCaprio became best friends on set, however there were rumours Winslet and Cameron, 69, quarrelled at the time.
In 1998, she told Rolling Stone magazine that she would “only work for Jim Cameron again for a lot of money.”
Cameron told the publication: “There was never a rift between us. She had a little postpartum depression when she let go of Rose. She and I have talked about the fact that she goes really, really deep, and her characters leave a lasting, sometimes dramatic impression on her.”